If You Come Softly
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson is a 1998 Society & Culture book written by TED speaker Jacqueline Woodson, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "What reading slowly taught me about writing" (2019), 3.2M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 21 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 4th of 10 books by Jacqueline Woodson on Books Worth Reading (1994–2018), by publication year.
- Edition: Scholastic Canada, Limited, 1998 · 181 pages
The paired TED talk
What reading slowly taught me about writing (2019), the TED talk by Jacqueline Woodson.
From the publisher
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
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